Thread: Fremont, NEB: Illegal immigration ordinance passes

It seems that Murrieta CA already uses E-Verify! Good for them.

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Mr Kendreger,
E-Verify is already utilized by the City of Murrieta.
The Menifee resolution struck the appropriate tone and will probably be addressed by Murrieta in the near future.
As you are probably well aware, the Arizona law places more restrictions upon enforcement than the current Federal Customs and Border Patrol policies. Since that is a fact, it is likely that much of the angst by the political class in Washington, Sacramento, San Francisco, and LA is more about political advantage than fear of manifest bias.

Regards,
Rick

Jun 22, 2010

Nebraska town OKs ordinance against illegal immigrants

10:24 AM
By Dave Weaver, AP

Residents of the small Nebraska town of Fremont have passed a controversial law aimed at ridding the town of illegal immigrants despite warnings that it could mean higher taxes and cuts in city services, the Omaha World-Herald reports.

The ordinance, which passed by a 57% to 43% margin, would fine landlords and employers in Fremont who house or hire illegal immigrants.

Officials in this town of 25,000 just west of Omaha say it could cost up to $200,000 a year to enforce the law and up to $1 million to fight expected legal challenges.

"You've got to take a step," Jerry Hart, a leader of a petition drive to put the ordinance on the ballot, tells the newspaper. "You've got to do something."

Hispanics make up about 8% of the town's population, compared to about 4% in 2000. The newspaper says immigrants, drawn largely by jobs at meatpacking plants just outside the city limits, account for about 85% of the town's growth this decade.
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Originally Posted by Ratbstard

Originally Posted by jamesw62

Hazleton, Pa., passed an ordinance in 2006 to fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and deny permits to businesses hiring them. The Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, TX., also has tried for years to enforce a ban on landlords renting to illegal immigrants. Federal judges struck down both ordinances, but both are on appeal.

I often wonder why these appeals have yet to be resolved.

You can't push anything through the court any faster than the judge and the lawyers want it to go. The lawyers get paid by the hour and are in no rush to get it over with.The lawyers who are trying to stop it from being enforced are happy to just keep it tied up in court forever, as long as it isn't being enforced.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Originally Posted by Ratbstard

Originally Posted by jamesw62

Hazleton, Pa., passed an ordinance in 2006 to fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants and deny permits to businesses hiring them. The Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, TX., also has tried for years to enforce a ban on landlords renting to illegal immigrants. Federal judges struck down both ordinances, but both are on appeal.

I often wonder why these appeals have yet to be resolved.

You can't push anything through the court any faster than the judge and the lawyers want it to go. The lawyers get paid by the hour and are in no rush to get it over with.The lawyers who are trying to stop it from being enforced are happy to just keep it tied up in court forever, as long as it isn't being enforced.

COSTING THE TAXPAYERS EVEN MORE! We're getting screwed every which way!

I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THE ACLU STOOD FOR, THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION THEY NEED TO CHANGE THEIR NAME TO MCLU SINCE THEY ARE PROTECTING THEIR RIGHTS IN A COUNTRY WHERE IMO THEY HAVE NO RIGHTS CIVIL OR OTHER WISE.

More and more cities are taking it upon themselves to do whatever they can to stop illegal immigration in their area.

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Well maybe what the ACLU needs is a taste of their own medicine in all 50 states by citizens filing numerous law suits against them for discrimination against US Citizen voters who are effected by their automatic law suits.

What we need is an attorney in each state to file on behalf of the US Citizens and legal voters. That should tie their attorneys up for awhile. Fight fire with fire.

Has anybody researched them to see if they get any federal tax dollars for their operations?

Originally Posted by PatriotAZGUY

Well maybe what the ACLU needs is a taste of their own medicine in all 50 states by citizens filing numerous law suits against them for discrimination against US Citizen voters who are effected by their automatic law suits.

What we need is an attorney in each state to file on behalf of the US Citizens and legal voters. That should tie their attorneys up for awhile. Fight fire with fire.

Has anybody researched them to see if they get any federal tax dollars for their operations?

Who is going to pay for all of these attorneys and court filing fees?

Fremont and Nebraska look ahead after immigration vote

By ART HOVEY / Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:55 pm

The election is over, but the reverberations in Fremont and elsewhere are just beginning.

The city and Dodge County are trying to sort out when a new ordinance aimed at illegal immigrants will take effect. And the Chamber of Commerce is wondering about the effect on the community's image.

In Lincoln, the American Civil Liberties Union is thinking through logical choices for an employer or a landlord or someone else with a Fremont address and the guts to be named as a plaintiff in overturning the ordinance in court.

The new city law that passed 57 percent to 43 percent Monday penalizes employers and landlords of illegal workers in Fremont.

In Schuyler, the school superintendent is trying to assure outsiders that another Nebraska town with a growing Hispanic population is not trying to be a Fremont copycat.

Superintendent Robin Stevens said approval of new residency rules by the school board there Monday night has nothing to do with legal residency in the United States or with cracking down on illegal immigrants.

"This has nothing to do with that, nothing at all," he said Tuesday. "We just want students who live in the Schuyler district to come to school in the Schuyler district."

Firming up policy is meant to require three pieces of evidence from those who meet district residency requirements at a school with about 75 percent Hispanic enrollment. It's meant to exclude those who aren't residents and don't have special permission to attend school in Schuyler.

"We've run this past our legal counsel," Stevens said, "and they've advised us all along the way. We've been in contact with the ACLU explaining our position."

Jim Luebbe of the Lincoln office of the Nebraska Association of School Boards concurred.

"What they're doing is more than just common," he said. "It's almost universal practice, I would say."

Amy Miller, legal director for the ACLU in Nebraska, acknowledged dialogue with Stevens in which he tried to make a case that the intent, as Miller put it, is not to "discourage or chill" parents planning to register children who might be undocumented.

She said she continues to monitor the situation in Schuyler, but her more immediate focus Tuesday was Fremont and following through on the promise of a lawsuit challenging constitutionality of the new ordinance there.

She was quick to concede that finding a local plaintiff might not be easy.

"The concerns people have about adverse reactions are not unfounded, because my office has fielded 70-80 calls this morning alone.

"The majority of them were people who just want to be abusive and harassing -- not people, apparently, that are even in Nebraska."

But the goal remains to select one or more aggrieved local plaintiffs and to file legal action.

"We're probably talking a couple of weeks," Miller said.

The ACLU could turn to its own membership to file the suit, she said.

"But the stronger case is someone who is an employer or a landlord or an immigrant that would be directly affected by the ordinance."

One way or another, the job will get done, Miller vowed, and it will happen before the city and county get past such chores as canvassing the vote, certifying the outcome and publishing the ordinance and arriving at an enforcement date.

Ron Tillery, executive director of the Fremont Area Chamber of Commerce, has his eye on these details. But he's also wondering how the community's image might be affected beyond the city limits.

"For me, I'm just hoping for the best," Tillery said. "And I know the heart of most people I know in Fremont is in the right place."

He's not going to try to assign good or bad motives on the basis of how individuals might have voted on Monday on a matter of immigration law.

"I think this may be a case where people are wishing for a solution," Tillery said. "And when you describe the ordinance in 10 words or less, it's what a lot of people would like to see happen."

The Chamber objected to the ordinance, "but our objection is to actual content and to the ability of the ordinance to do what it sets out to do."

Tillery said he felt no chilling effect as he watched Fremont wrestle with its immigration future at the same time he considered moving there after 21 years in a similar position in Kearney.

"These are good solid Nebraskans," he said. "They're good people, with whom I feel completely comfortable. And this is an issue with which we're going to ultimately succeed."

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How do I give money to thier legal fund? People in a position to donate need to donate to help fight the upcoming battle with the ACLU goons.